Bad at Sports » micro-blogging http://badatsports.com Contemporay art talk without the ego Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:52:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Crowd-Sourced Curation http://badatsports.com/2009/crowd-sourced-curation/ http://badatsports.com/2009/crowd-sourced-curation/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:36:07 +0000 Claudine Ise http://badatsports.com/?p=1174 I don’t Tweet, and no one can convince me that Wikipedia is a fundamentally reliable source of knowledge, but I’m definitely intrigued by gallerist and 20 x 200 impresario Jen Bekman’s experiment in “crowd-sourced curation.”  Bekman asked fellow Twitterers to recommend artists they’d like to see participate in  20 x 200, and received a deluge of suggestions in response. Get the full story here.

Did any of you New York readers see Bekman’s talk “Overcrowded – How crowd sourcing is ruining everything” at Ignite NYC III last week? If you did, can you give us the lowdown in the comments? Bekman’s take on the issue is of interest, as she’s one of only a few dealers to develop a successful model for marketing affordable contemporary art to the masses. Makes me wonder if or how phenomena like micro-blogging and crowd-sourcing will  affect the future of art criticism as well as institutional curation. I’m sure there’s a number of art critics already twittering out there (are there any who now use Twitter exclusively?), and you know some enterprising curator will find a way to Tweet out an art show, it’s only a matter of time.

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